Pecan processor, southeast Alabama
Reclassified three SKUs, corrected an origin statement and re-tendered freight. First container to Rotterdam cleared without inspection; duty exposure reduced by roughly 6% of landed cost.
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Industries
Four categories we know in detail, with anonymised examples of the work behind them.
Sector focus
Four categories, studied properly
Export rules are category-specific. Rather than claim general expertise, we keep working files on the four sectors below and decline work far outside them.
Specialty food & beverage
Alabama and the wider Southeast produce a great deal of sauce, snack, coffee and confectionery product that travels well. The obstacles are almost never the goods; they are labels, declarations and shelf-life.
- Destination-specific ingredient and allergen labelling
- Nutrition panel conversion and language requirements
- Shelf-life declarations and date-format conventions
- Registration and prior-notice questions for the destination authority
- Temperature-controlled packing and transit-time modelling
Home, gift & textile goods
High-value-per-carton categories where freight economics decide whether the margin survives. We spend most of the engagement on carton design, classification and choosing between air and consolidated ocean freight.
- Fibre content and care labelling declarations
- Flammability and safety documentation where required
- Carton cube optimisation and pallet configuration
- Classification of mixed sets and gift assortments
- Returns and damage policy drafting for distributor agreements
Light manufacturing & components
Fittings, tooling, fabricated parts and small assemblies. Here the questions are origin, preference eligibility and whether anything in the bill of materials triggers export-control attention.
- Substantial transformation and origin determination
- Trade-agreement preference eligibility and record-keeping
- Dual-use and end-use screening
- Technical drawings and specification packs for customs
- Spare-parts and warranty shipment procedures
Health & personal care
The most regulated category we accept, and the one where timelines are longest. We are candid about registration lead times before an engagement starts.
- Ingredient disclosure and prohibited-substance checks by market
- Registration pathway mapping and realistic timelines
- Importer-of-record and responsible-person structures
- Claims review against destination advertising rules
- Batch, lot and traceability record design
Selected work
Three anonymised engagements
Client names are withheld where the engagement is commercially sensitive.
Home linens brand, Tennessee
Market shortlist narrowed from eleven to three. Carton redesign cut cube by 18%, which converted an unprofitable route into a viable one.
Tooling supplier, central Alabama
Partner screening rejected the leading distributor candidate after reference calls; the second-choice partner has now placed four repeat orders.